Great Sorrow Quotes
24 Great Sorrow quotes by 20 unique authors
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A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the…
— Helen Fisher
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There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a terrible phenomenon, whose laws we…
— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice and sin have…
— Oswald J. Smith
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I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Great sorrow makes sacred the sufferer.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. It is a woman's face usually; often a face which…
— Helen Hunt
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A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means…
— Pythagoras
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known…
— George Eliot
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared…
— Rudyard Kipling
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I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a…
— Markus Zusak
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Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.
— Anne Fortier
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Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow. Well, perhaps you are right. Perhaps the wise spurn one to remain safe from the…
— Anne Fortier
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Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. 'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.’ ...from a Himmel street window, he…
— Markus Zusak
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But that isn't right. The King of Beasts shouldn't be a coward,'" said the Scarecrow. 'I know it,' returned the Lion, wiping a tear from…
— L. Frank Baum
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A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want…
— Donna Tartt
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Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle…
— Phillips Brooks
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The consequences of ignoring the Lord and His prophets are certain and often accompanied by great sorrow and regret.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.
— Fanny Burney
Who Wrote These Great Sorrow Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 24 Great Sorrow Quotes as follows: